The latest crime statistics have been revealed by the Police, and it doesn’t look good for Randfontein.
The statistics cover the period April 2016 to March 2017 and indicate that crimes against persons, contact-related crimes, property-related crimes and other serious crimes almost all showed an increase.
Out of the 33 crimes mentioned only nine showed decreases while the remaining 24 showed increases, as follows:
Contact crimes against a person (Overall increase of 4,2 per cent):
• Murder – Down by 20,8 per cent
• Sexual offences – Up by 13,5 per cent
• Attempted murder – Down by 17,4 per cent
• Assault with the intent to inflict grievous bodily harm – Up by 6 per cent
• Common assault – Up by 2,8 per cent
• Common robbery – Down by 1,8 per cent
• Robbery with aggravating circumstances – Up by 8,9 per cent
Sexual offences (Overall increase of 13,5 per cent):
• Rape – Up by 16,1 per cent
• Sexual assault – Remained the same
• Attempted sexual offences – Down by 60 per cent
• Contact sexual offences – Up by 150 per cent
Subcategories of aggravated robberies (Overall increase of 5,9 percent):
• Carjacking – Up by 42,5 per cent
• Truck hijacking – Down by 33,3 per cent
• Robbery of cash-in-transit – Remained the same
• Bank robbery – No cases
• Robbery at residential premises – Down by 10,8 per cent
• Robbery at non-residential premises – Down by 4,7 per cent
• Trio crimes – Up by 8,6 per cent
Contact-related crimes (Overall increase of 6,3 per cent):
• Arson – Up by 87,5 per cent
• Malicious damage to property – Up by 5,1 per cent
Property-related crimes (Overall increase of 5,8 per cent):
• Burglary at non-residential premises – Down by 7,2 per cent
• Burglary at residential premises – Up by 3 per cent
• Theft of motor vehicle and motorcycle – Up by 10,2 per cent
• Theft out of or from motor vehicle – Up by 19,3 per cent
• Stock-theft – Down by 47,6 per cent
Other serious crimes (Overall increase of 5,2 per cent):
• All theft not mentioned elsewhere – Up by 5,45 per cent
• Commercial crime – Up by 4,6 per cent
• Shoplifting – Up by 5,8 per cent
• Other serious crimes – Up by 5,5 per cent
Crime detected as a result of police action (Overall decrease of 16,8 per cent):
• Illegal possession of firearms and ammunition – Down by 4,1 per cent
• Drug-related crime – Down by 47,7 per cent
• Driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs – Up by 32,4 per cent
• Sexual offences detected as a result of police action – Up by 50 per cent
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